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First edition, first printing of Steinbeck's masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Publisher's original beige cloth, lettered and decorated in brown, pictorial endpapers; pp. vi, 619. Dust jacket correctly priced at $2.75, although the edition statement to the front flap has been clipped. A very good copy in a good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy with a slight lean, minimal wear to boards, scattered foxing to text block edges. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, else internally clean. Jacket shows general wear and rubbing with chipping at spine ends, a few faint stains, a bit of loss along the front flap fold and splitting along the front spine fold. Presents well in archival mylar.

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a powerful novel depicting the struggles of the Joad family during the Great Depression as they journey from Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.

The first edition of 'The Grapes of Wrath' published by Viking Press would be bound in beige cloth with the title and author's name printed on the spine and front cover, without the Pulitzer Prize mention since it was awarded in 1940, after the first edition release.